(Re)Framing the Institutional Stance in Political and Non-Political Narratives in Turkish News: The Case of Euronews

Olcay Şener Erkırtay

(Re)Framing the Institutional Stance in Political and Non-Political Narratives in Turkish News: The Case of Euronews

Abstract

This article analyses Euronews’ institutional stance through the (re)framing of political and non-political news narratives. Thus, a corpus of 100 English and Turkish news pairs was compiled: 50 pairs of news headlines and decks related to refugees and asylum seekers within the political news context, and 50 pairs related to travel stories within a non-political news context. Drawing on Mona Baker’s narrative theory, more specifically, selective appropriation as a framing strategy, this study adopts a mixed-method approach, incorporating both qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine how the institutional stance is reconstructed in the target texts. The results revealed shifts from a negative to a more neutral stance in the translations of political headlines and decks, as well as in travel news headlines. Interestingly, the travel news decks shifted from a predominantly negative to a more positive stance. These findings highlight the interplay between shifts in stance and the broader contextual factors.

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No support was received from any institution

Ethical Statement

This study does not require ethics committee approval

Thanks

I would like to thank Simon Edward Mumford for proofreading this manuscript.

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Primary Language

English

Subjects

Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-Cultural Studies

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Olcay Şener Erkırtay ^*
0000-0002-5971-2585
Türkiye

Publication Date

January 26, 2026

Submission Date

September 14, 2025

Acceptance Date

December 19, 2025

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Year 2026 Number: 5

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Şener Erkırtay, O. (2026). (Re)Framing the Institutional Stance in Political and Non-Political Narratives in Turkish News: The Case of Euronews. Overtones Ege Journal of English Studies, 5, 61-73. https://izlik.org/JA85KM75BJ

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1.Şener Erkırtay O. (Re)Framing the Institutional Stance in Political and Non-Political Narratives in Turkish News: The Case of Euronews. Overtones. 2026;(5):61-73. https://izlik.org/JA85KM75BJ

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Şener Erkırtay, Olcay. 2026. “(Re)Framing the Institutional Stance in Political and Non-Political Narratives in Turkish News: The Case of Euronews”. Overtones Ege Journal of English Studies, nos. 5: 61-73. https://izlik.org/JA85KM75BJ.

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[1]O. Şener Erkırtay, “(Re)Framing the Institutional Stance in Political and Non-Political Narratives in Turkish News: The Case of Euronews”, Overtones, no. 5, pp. 61–73, Jan. 2026, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA85KM75BJ

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Şener Erkırtay, Olcay. “(Re)Framing the Institutional Stance in Political and Non-Political Narratives in Turkish News: The Case of Euronews”. Overtones Ege Journal of English Studies. 5 (January 1, 2026): 61-73. https://izlik.org/JA85KM75BJ.

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Şener Erkırtay, Olcay. “(Re)Framing the Institutional Stance in Political and Non-Political Narratives in Turkish News: The Case of Euronews”. Overtones Ege Journal of English Studies, no. 5, Jan. 2026, pp. 61-73, https://izlik.org/JA85KM75BJ.

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1.Olcay Şener Erkırtay. (Re)Framing the Institutional Stance in Political and Non-Political Narratives in Turkish News: The Case of Euronews. Overtones [Internet]. 2026 Jan. 1;(5):61-73. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA85KM75BJ